This paper challenges the currently popular "Data Warehouse is a Special Animal" philosophy and advocates that practitioners adopt a more conservative "Data Warehou...
Semantic integration is an active area of research in several disciplines, such as databases, information-integration, and ontologies. This paper provides a brief survey of the ap...
Medusa [3, 6] is a distributed stream processing system based on the Aurora single-site stream processing engine [1]. We demonstrate how Medusa handles time-varying load spikes an...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
In Toronto's Kanata project, we are investigating the integration and exchange of data and metadata in dynamic, autonomous environments. Our focus is on the development and m...